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World’s worst boss I’ve played a bunch of indie game demos atPAX East, but none left my head reeling as much as 43 Studios' fiendishly frantic action platfotmerHell Of An Office. It’s a super fast parkour adventure in the vein ofNeon White, and after ten minutes with the demo my heart race was through the roof. If I owned a fitbit it would have been screaming at me to have a nice sit down with a cuppa....

Time to eat Show me a game about a feral, furry creature with a never ending hunger for junk food and I’m immediately interested. I playedPizza Possumon the first day of PAX and knew it would make a great indie highlight for our time here atPAX East. Liam and I have now both played the demo and you can listen to our impressions in the video below: What really appealed to us about Pizza Possum is how chaotic it is....

3, 2, 1, FIGHT! Liam and I had a fun time chatting with the folks over at Mega Cat Studios about their upcoming wrestling RPGWrestleQuestlast year at PAX West, and this time atPAX Eastwe finally cornered them in the ring for a proper interview. Watch below to learn about how the developers created their zero to hero story, how they’re addressing myths and persaonl issues in the world of pro wresting, as well as sharing a story about how one of the team got their nose broken in a wrestling accident during development....

Ding-Ding-Ding Imagine for a moment, if you will, thatPersona 5let you suplex your opponents. Even better, imagine if those moves were pulled off through timing based minigames that resembled the battles found in Nintendo’s excellent (and underrated) Mario & Luigi RPG series. Sounds good, right? Well guess what, that game exists! It’s calledWrestle Storyand it’s definitely a project to keep an eye on. After spending twenty glorious minutes with its colourful demo atPAX East, I was keen to chat to creative director Steve Jimenez about the team’s inspirations, the challenges of translating wrestling into a turn-based RPG and the exciting locations that players will attempt to liberate from a group of devious heels....

Conquest mode is all about quick battles I somehow missed the news two weeks ago thatWargroove 2was on the way. The actual successor to a spiritual successor to Advance Wars, Wargroove 2 is another 2D turn-based strategy game, but with new factions, a new roguelike mode, and a new co-developer. There’s also a demo available to play right now, although only until the end of the weekend. The Conquest mode demo is available nowfrom Steam....

Make the residents work for you Go-Go Town!has more than a littleAnimal Crossingabout it, as players become mayor of a cutesy fixer-upper town and start doing oddjobs to attract new visitors and inhabitants. It differs in several key ways too, thankfully, from its more urban setting, its tactile power tools, and the ability to automate a lot of the gathering and crafting by putting residents to work for you. Watch the reveal trailer below....

Arise Have A Nice Death’s dark art and quick-slashing combat bringHollow Knightto mind, but it has more in common with Hades andDead Cells. One of the things it has in common with those games is that it was released in early access. After a little more than a year, version 1.0 arrived this week, bringing a final area, a new boss, and the end of its storyline. Here’s the launch trailer:...

And first two banners Honkai: Star Railhas been hinting at an April 26threlease datefor months, but now it’s official. The free-to-play, turn-basedGenshin Impactspin-off will be available for pre-download from April 23rd and will be available via its official site and the Epic Games Store come the 26th. A presentation streamed yesterday also revealed its first two banners. Here’s the full presentation, which is in Chinese (minus some English language voice acting) but with English subtitles:...

A sun-drenched vacation In Mythwrecked you play as Alex, a backpacker who has washed up on the sun-drenched shores of Ambrosia Island. As she begins exploring, she soon realises that this island seems to be a hot spot for the gods from ancient Greek myths. Your task is to befriend each god, help them restore their memories, and find a way back to civilisation. From playing the demo, you can see much of what made Roki fun reflected in Mythwrecked....

Cute but deadly Out of all the game demos Liam and I have played atPAX East, we both agree thatAnimal Wellis something special. It’s a 2D metriodvania where you play as a little blob trying to navigate a subtterranean labyrinth filled with creatures - some cute, some not so cute. To find out more about this strange puzzle platformer’s beginnings and development, we spoke to solo develeoper Billy Basso and Bigmode’s Leah Gastrow which you can view in the two videos below....

“Bear in mind that we don’t plan to update the Legacy version, it will stay as true to how it was when it launched,” Ghost Ship say on theirSteam blog. “So consider bugs to be features - the Glyphid kinds as well as the technical ones.” The Ghost Ship crew are “back to working on the future of DRG,” so any crashes we might experience in Legacy are just a reminder to jump back into DRG proper....

Everywhere is Leslie Benzie’s not-blockchain content creation hub Everywhere(not to be confused withEverything) was a big fat question mark at last year’s Gamescom Opening Night Live. It comes from Build A Rocket Boy, the studio founded by ex-GTA boss Leslie Benzies, and despite its cryptic reveal trailer, AliceBtheorisedit was some kind of Robloxlike. Turns out her hunch was correct - Everywhere is a platform that allows players to create their own custom content....

And it’s free! The Mercenaries DLC mode will be added to theResident Evil 4 remake, for free, on April 7th. The full game launched today, so by the time you’re done gorging on the remake’s fancy additions, the new mode should be ready. Hopefully, you’re still in the mood to roundhouse kick waves of infected in two weeks' time. The date for Mercenaries was revealed at the end of the recent launch trailer (above) with a simple graphic....